Korg Kronos Keyboard Workstation: Just bought a new toy!

the cosmic pimp wrote:

Coz wrote:I think Omnishere owns most synths.

You taking it back then?

Yeah defo........Gutted i fell for the hype i never learn to just make beats with what i have and realise that spending £3000 on a keyboard aint gonna turn me into pharrell w.

You got the wrong Kronos.
You should have gotten the all white Pharrell Signature 61 key version.

It will make you Pharrel just like the Timbo Miko and Neko made people instantly Tim.

the cosmic pimp wrote:Yeah defo........Gutted i fell for the hype i never learn to just make beats with what i have and realise that spending £3000 on a keyboard aint gonna turn me into pharrell w.

That may be true, but in the hardware world, I don't think there is a better "bread and butter" sound module on the planet than Kronos!!!!

How the **** can korg realise a keyboard that takes 3 minutes to boot up and 3-6 secs changing sounds and it feels cheap as ****

the cosmic pimp wrote:How the **** can korg realise a keyboard that takes 3 minutes to boot up and 3-6 secs changing sounds and it feels cheap as ****

Really? You have to be kidding me!!! Three minutes????

So basically, you're saying that it just runs slow in general!!!??!?!? I'm tempted to go to Sam Ash and play with one just to see. I can't believe it behaves like that.

I heard it takes 3 minutes to boot up if you load all the internal patches.

kb420ps wrote:

the cosmic pimp wrote:Yeah defo........Gutted i fell for the hype i never learn to just make beats with what i have and realise that spending £3000 on a keyboard aint gonna turn me into pharrell w.

That may be true, but in the hardware world, I don't think there is a better "bread and butter" sound module on the planet than Kronos!!!!

So you have a Kronos?

Otherwise you are making a major assumption, bread and butter has never been a Korg forte in their workstations.

Sovereign wrote:So you have a Kronos?

Otherwise you are making a major assumption, bread and butter has never been a Korg forte in their workstations.

I thought that was the focus of Kronos. It has entire engines focused on bread and butter sounds. Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, 3 different synths, a pluck string emulation, and a sampler for everything else. For $3000, it better have all the bread and butter sounds that you need, and from what I've seen, it has all of that in spades.

What other hardware workstation do you think covers bread and butter sounds better than Kronos? Motif XF? Fantom? I don't think they've given as much attention to detail that Korg has with Kronos.

It took approximately 2 minutes for my Kronos to boot up. This is because it is loading nearly 2 GB of sounds/data into its RAM.

I will be reading the manual and playing with it throughout the day. By the way...Cosmic Pimp implied that it takes 2 seconds to change a patch. I am not getting the same results. It changes patches as fast as any other workstation I have used. Simply turn the data wheel one notch and a patch plays immediately.

One note is that Korg didn't seem to focus on the aesthetic aspect of Kronos like Roland has done with the Fantom G. It looks like Korg just wanted to give you a no-thrills control surface....think Toyota Tercel with the engine of the Lexus LS. lol If a lay person walked into a music shop and saw the Kronos, Fantom G, Motif XF, and a Kurzweil board....they would try the Kronos last based upon aesthetics. But this has been the recent history of Korg as the M3 is probably the ugliest modern workstation I have ever seen (fairing just a bit better than fugliness of the Alesis Fusion).

I agree 100%. The M3 was the ugliest thing I have ever seen!!!!

fokin nice jah
waiting for your review soon and some beats done with it

kb420ps wrote:

Sovereign wrote:So you have a Kronos?

Otherwise you are making a major assumption, bread and butter has never been a Korg forte in their workstations.

I thought that was the focus of Kronos. It has entire engines focused on bread and butter sounds. Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, 3 different synths, a pluck string emulation, and a sampler for everything else. For $3000, it better have all the bread and butter sounds that you need, and from what I've seen, it has all of that in spades.

What other hardware workstation do you think covers bread and butter sounds better than Kronos? Motif XF? Fantom? I don't think they've given as much attention to detail that Korg has with Kronos.

Bread and Butter is Yamaha.
Not because the others don't cover them, Yamaha just has more convincing sounds.
Has remained the strength of the Motif family through it variations.

temetrepo wrote:fokin nice jah
waiting for your review soon and some beats done with it

Most people will probably be disappointed with my review. I bought this keyboard for one reason only...I wanted a better keyboard sampler. So any review will focus primarily on easy of sampling, sampling w/effects, sample editing, multisample program creating, audio track recording, etc.

Askia Shaheed wrote:
One note is that Korg didn't seem to focus on the aesthetic aspect of Kronos like Roland has done with the Fantom G. It looks like Korg just wanted to give you a no-thrills control surface....think Toyota Tercel with the engine of the Lexus LS. lol If a lay person walked into a music shop and saw the Kronos, Fantom G, Motif XF, and a Kurzweil board....they would try the Kronos last based upon aesthetics. But this has been the recent history of Korg as the M3 is probably the ugliest modern workstation I have ever seen (fairing just a bit better than fugliness of the Alesis Fusion).

The M3 never seemed ugly to me and it still kills anything out their with those d*mn chord pads for realtime.